Prof. Shulamit Levenberg of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Biomedical Engineering Faculty discusses the Vascularization of Engineered Tissue in the Laboratory.
When human tissue is damaged by trauma or disease, replacement tissue is needed by surgeons to repair it. Tissue is usually transplanted from one part of the patient’s body to another (autograft) or from one person to another (allograft).
Under the supervision or Prof. Levenberg , doctoral student Shahar Ben-Shaul working with Shira Landau and Uri Merdler – has brought successful tissue engineering a step forward. Their findings are published in an article in the latest issue of PNAS (Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences) titled “Mature vessel networks within engineered tissue promote graft-host anastomosis and prevent graft thrombosis”.
